"My experience is the White House is not……" — Dennis C. Blair

"My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it."

15 Quotes by Dennis C. Blair

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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther…
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns…
High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al…
The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the…
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those…
The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our…
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see…
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended…
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic…
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant…
In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some…

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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast… — Paulo Freire
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how… — Wendell Berry
When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they… — Napoleon Hill
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. — Bill Gates
Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of… — Caroline Myss
"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..."… — Unknown Author
If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the… — Daniel Pinchbeck
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other… — Richard Holbrooke
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand… — N. T. Wright
I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies. — Jim Ramstad
When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route.… — Jeanette Winterson
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we… — Earl Blumenauer

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"My experience is the White House is not……" — Dennis C. Blair

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